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Replying to: bumpy (Apr 11, 2008 11:21 am) I just came back from running errands. First to the bank, which is about 4 miles away, and then to the AAA office, which is about 7 miles away, but in the opposite direction. Total trip was 22.5 miles, which cost me $3.89 just in fuel. I could've renewed my AAA membership online, saving 14 miles. However, I had a $50 rebate voucher that I could only use if I went to the office. I could probably coax 12 mpg out of my '85 Silverado on that same run. However, it has a preference for high octane, and would come out to about 30 cents per mile. Or about 3.3 miles per dollar. That same errand would've cost about $6.75 if I used the truck! Now I know these dollar amounts are fairly petty in the overall scheme of things. But they do add up. I remember back in the days before I bought my Intrepid, when paying more than $1.25 per gallon was rare, running around in something like my '68 Dart only came out to 9-10 cents per mile. Back in those days, it just didn't seem like all that much money, even accounting for inflation. Hmm, "those days". This was just back in the 90's! I must be getting old...
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Replying to: andre1969 (Apr 12, 2008 7:36 am) |
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Replying to: andre1969 (Apr 12, 2008 7:36 am) My last trip to the ski hill this season was yesterday. I drove up 35 times, and it's 50 miles round trip. My Subie gets about 22 mpg overall. So...1750 miles, ~80 gallons used, call it $3 a gallon for the last 3 months - that's $240 in gas for snowboarding this season. Or about $7 a trip. For perspective, a day ticket is $46. But a season pass only costs $199. Last year the Subie used 308 gallons or ~$926 in gas. So far this year I've burned 107 gallons of gas in the Subaru or $323. I don't want to update those numbers with the actual cost of gas - using $3 a gallon is bad enough. 
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Replying to: andre1969 (Apr 12, 2008 7:36 am) But as I was driving home from dropping him off, I started thinking: it's about 150 miles round trip, so at the price I am paying now, even in my car, the favor cost me about $15! We don't think about that kind of stuff usually, or at least I don't, because it's not money coming out of our wallet at the moment we are doing it. But the thinking of five years ago, that driving is a cheap activity that is automatic rather than one that requires weighing need against cost, needs to go out the window because trips lke this cost real money now. Not that $15 is some killer cost that is going to throw my whole budget off, but just a few trips like this one would add up to 25-50% of my car payment!
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Replying to: nippononly (Apr 12, 2008 11:35 am) I think at one point, I actually got the Intrepid down to about 5 cents per mile, when I took it on a trip back in the early '00's. I guess those days are gone forever!
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Replying to: andre1969 (Apr 12, 2008 1:49 pm) The Echo does a lot better (46+ on highway trips), which is why I usually take that car for the longer trips when I'm not carrying a bunch of stuff or extra people.
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Replying to: nippononly (Apr 12, 2008 9:08 pm)
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Replying to: gagrice (Apr 13, 2008 6:31 am) According to the EPA figures, there's actually not much difference. A 2000 Echo, for instance, is rated at 34/41 with the stick shift, while a 2007 Yaris stick is 34/40. Using the newer, lower numbers, that drops a bit to 29/36 with the Yaris, 29/37 with the Echo. It's also been mentioned that with the Echo and Yaris, it's not hard to beat the EPA figures. And any leadfoot could still probably beat the new downrated numbers.
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